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www.hathitrust.org The Partners When announced in October 2008, full partners included: – University of California system – CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) – University of Virginia University of Chicago University of Illinois Indiana University University of Iowa University of Michigan Michgian State University University of Minnesota Northwestern University Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University Purdue University University of Wisconsin-Madison

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www.hathitrust.org Sorting the Issues Cost Model – Partners charged a one-time start-up fee based on the number of volumes added to the repository, in addition to an annual fee for the curation of those volumes.

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www.hathitrust.org Why METS? – Can serve as an Archival Information Package and a Dissemination Information Package – Designed to record the relationship between pieces of complex digital objects – Can be created automatically as texts are loaded or reloaded METS Object